Its great

Whaat? If youtube really wants to shoot itself to leg, it can do this..

As long Silverlight is propietar technology what is controlled by Microsoft, it is not anyway better than Adobe Flash.

C''mon. Microsoft makes sure that newest version is always for Windows NT only. They leave off other OS''s like Darwin or Linux. Currently for Linux there is 1.0 released, what is far behind from newest 2.0 version.

In real life, you can not use at all those sites what uses silverlight because they are 2.0 version.

If Microsoft would open source the silverlight and actually develop it for all OS''s, (NT, Darwin, Linux etc) it would be nice to have.

@Tom: Silverlight *is* available for Mac and Linux. I have no idea where you got the idea that Silverlight is for "Windows NT only", but that is false and you shouldn''t be repeating it.

Youtube is now owned by Google and highly unlikely that impossible that it will shake hands with silverlight!.

@Tom: You need to wake up and smell the coffee! ;-)

Maybe they shoot themselves in the leg if they would stick to Flash.

Flash players suck in slow connections! It''s a smart move for Youtube. Silverlight truely lights up the web.

My major SilverLight gripe is that it''s not available as a .msi

Flash is a tidy .msi and a text file to control it''s behavior. It''s been a treat to deploy in the enterprise for years.

I am a little bit confused. Is Flash an open source?

They said .net would not succeed what do they say today.
They said the same about silverlight. But everyone can witness it has achieved in a very short period. What will they say tomorrow?

Nice to read so much info about silverlight. Til now i was reluctant to use silverlight myself but after reading this conversation, i installed it.
:)

what is silverlight and how is it useful for a common student and a developer can any one plz say me

Google is actually pretty Microsoft oriented... They have a plethora of .Net based projects out there. I would be surprised if they have not considered using silverlight for major development.

>>Tom.S said
>>>As long Silverlight is propietar technology what is controlled by Microsoft, it is not anyway better than Adobe Flash.

Adobe is MUCH MUCH more propriate than silverlight

I think is great. Silverlight has great possibilities, and Microsoft has worked really hard to achieve that level of user experience, keep it up Silverlight team, congrats!

it would be really cool if YouTube uses Silverilght!

@Joshua Allen

no there''s no silverlight for linux dists!

@Mikko - The Silverlight version for Linux distros is called "Moonlight", and is built by the guys behind the mono project, with some assistance from Microsoft.

it doesn''t support silverlight 3 and drm + more and it''s locked out of Feynman lectures

@Mikko -- You''re right. With Gestalt, we stuck to Silverlight 2 so that we could support Linux, and the majority of content out there is SL2, but some sites took dependencies on SL3 functionality that won''t be on Linux for awhile.

Silverlight is awesome. I''m curious how they are planning on using Silverlight...seems it would be a poor ROI business decision with everything already working on FLash (unless the underlying videos are H.265 which SL now supports).

My gripe is that Silverlight is SOO far behind on Linux. Thats where Flash creams them. For me, I would LOVE to create Silverlight 3 applications to be interfaces on HMI devices (human machine interface....touch panels running embedded systems). That would really help my quest for world domination!